Nitroglycerin is a chemical compound commonly used in medicine and explosives. It is a powerful substance that can help treat heart conditions because it widens the blood vessels, allowing better blood flow. However, it can also cause powerful explosions if handled incorrectly, so it needs to be handled with extreme caution.
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Over the next three decades, the future
of nitroglycerin took two significant, divergent paths — one medical, and the other for construction and armaments.
You don't need me to tell you the Warriors are playing
with nitroglycerin with these slow starts.
However, when the cardiologists
gave nitroglycerin prior to placing the stent, the blockages resolved, indicating the true diagnosis of coronary artery spasm.
When the scientists applied
nitroglycerin patches, which cause increased blood flow to the skin, to nine normal mice breathing air with adequate oxygen, EPO and red blood cell levels shot up, confirming that diverting blood into the skin drives the production of EPO.
Ascanio Sobrero, a chemistry professor at the University of Turin, first prepared
nitroglycerin in 1847.
Many more drugs were used during the anesthesia and the long post-operative recovery period
like Nitroglycerin, Atracurium, Protamine, Amantadine, Pyracetam, Efedrin, Dopamine, Methylprednisolone, Fraxiparin, Clopidogrel, antibiotics, etc..)
PETN is in the same chemical family
as nitroglycerin (component in dynamite) and nitrocellulose (main component in gunpowder).
We recommend that future guidelines include intracoronary
nitroglycerin for these patients,» he said.
On the other hand, they fail to mention any role for
intracoronary nitroglycerin during cardiac catheterization or before angioplasty with stenting.
And while William Friedkin's incredible Sorcerer isn't a proper action movie — the only real villain is nature — I'd be remiss if I didn't mention one of the tensest action scenes I've ever seen: The one where the two trucks full of
unstable nitroglycerin have to cross a rickety, falling - apart jungle rope bridge in the middle of a storm.
Dynamite is an explosive based on the explosive potential of
nitroglycerin using diatomaceous earth as an adsorbent.
While trying to fend off an anticipated heart attack, he drove in a 200 - mile race in 1960 with
nitroglycerin pills underneath his tongue, finishing third at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey.
William Friedkin's 1977 thriller, in which four desperate men
drive nitroglycerin through an inhospitable jungle, is a tense study in psychological breakdown
The highly levered financial system is «like a truckload of
nitroglycerin on a bumpy road,» Janus» Bill Gross warns.
In this paper we will argue that rising inflation was the spark that ignited 1987 fire, while computer trading served as
explosive nitroglycerin that amplified a normal fire into a cataclysmic conflagration.
Yeah, science -
created nitroglycerin, dynamite, nuclear capabilities that creates destruction... yeah all, hail science
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A number of British physicians observed that
nitroglycerin rapidly terminated the intense chest pain of angina, and, following the publication of a systematic study in 1879, the drug was adopted for routine medical use.
«By simply
administering nitroglycerin before the procedure, we can save patients from unnecessary risks related to stents such as blood clots and restenosis,» said Alec Vishnevsky, M.D., cardiology fellow and first author on the study.
Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, also at the University of Turin, found that
when nitroglycerin was mixed with inert ingredients, it could be handled more safely.
In 1994 Al Qaeda member Ramzi Yousef, an architect of the first World Trade Center bombing, detonated
liquid nitroglycerin that he had brought on board a Philippine Airlines flight in contact - lens solution bottles.
(What is known is that nitrates such as amyl nitrite, or «poppers,» and
prescription nitroglycerin should never be combined with ED drugs, as this can be deadly.)
A team of no - hopers stuck far from Paris have their first job offer in a long time: to pilot truckloads of rotted, unstable
nitroglycerin over bad roads.
The banner atop the cartoon says, «Four totally idiotic behaviors,» then has images of people gargling with arsenic,
juggling nitroglycerin, poking a brown recluse and denying so - called man - made climate change.
The chest pains normally last only a few minutes and can be relieved with angina medication (
usually nitroglycerin).
At the hospital, her blood pressure was a very elevated 186 over 110 and she was
given nitroglycerin, a drug that relaxes blood vessels and can often help restore blood flow to the heart in heart attack patients.
Joachim Fandrey, a physiologist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, adds that the results suggest that
nitroglycerin patches, which have a long track record in treating chest pain in heart disease patients, might boost EPO production in people suffering from anemia due to kidney disease or cancer.
12/4/2007 New Drug Developed at UC - San Diego Has Potential to Treat Hypertension and Heart Disease Investigators at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have developed a new drug called nitrosyl - cobinamide, which they have shown in animal models to be potentially more effective than
nitroglycerin in increasing coronary... More...
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Like nitroglycerin, PETN is an organic nitrate and an explosive compound,» said Dr. Huige Li, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of the study and professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States has 22 Superfund sites laced with explosive wastes, such
as nitroglycerin or TNT.
Future papers will address the potential anti-cancer uses
of nitroglycerin (used to treat angina), itraconazole (a common anti-fungal), diclofenac (an over-the-counter painkiller), and clarithromycin (an antibiotic).
The nitroglycerin landed in sawdust, which soaked it up.
He was later able to explode the sawdust, and concluded that mixing
the nitroglycerin with an inert substance stabilized it.
Nitroglycerin was becoming a widely produced explosive, but it had some serious problems.
The NEJM letter also analyzed the use of two drugs that remained stable in price over that time period, as a control group —
nitroglycerin and dobutamine.
The number of patients treated with
nitroglycerin, a drug used for chest pain and heart failure, increased by 89 percent.
But it's
nitroglycerin, and every time we handle it, we should be in danger of having our worldview blown up.
He has also found that the headaches can be precipitated by histamines, drinking alcohol, or taking or
nitroglycerin, a heart medication.
Neurologists studying headaches have long known an unusual fact: When a heart patient places a small pill of
nitroglycerin under his tongue to ward off angina attacks, the nitroglycerin changes to nitric oxide in the body and immediately dilates blood vessels in the heart.
To this day,
nitroglycerin (medically renamed glyceryl trinitrate to dissociate itself from the explosive) and related nitrates are used to prevent and treat angina.
For the prevention of chest pain as a long - term medication, however,
nitroglycerin is not continuously effective because of the phenomenon known as nitrate tolerance.